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ZAKK WYLDE On 'Guitar Apprentice': 'To Me, Anything That Promotes The Guitar Is Good'

Zakk Wylde (BLACK LABEL SOCIETY, OZZY OSBOURNE) has announced his first signature-edition guitar instruction collection, exclusively available at Guitar Centers across the country beginning October 1. Guitar Apprentice takes a hit guitar song and breaks it down into 15 different levels of playing. T...

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AVENGED SEVENFOLD Contributes New Song 'Carry On' To 'Call Of Duty: Black Ops II' Video Game

A new AVENGED SEVENFOLD song entitled "Carry On" can be streamed below. The track will be featured on the soundtrack to the video game "Call of Duty: Black Ops II", due out on November 13. AVENGED SEVENFOLD previously contributed a song called "Not Ready To Die" to the content pack for "Call Of Duty...

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FLYING COLORS Live In Milan; Video Footage, Photos Available

FLYING COLORS — the spectacular new virtuoso prog/pop/metal rock band formed by drummer Mike Portnoy (ex-DREAM THEATER) and guitarist Steve Morse (DEEP PURPLE) — is wrapping up its first-ever European tour, which kicked off on September 9 in Hamburg, Germany. Fan-filmed video footage of the Septembe...

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PHILIP ANSELMO Says Making Full-Length Albums Nowadays Is 'Draining' And 'Taxing'

Earlier this month, Dave "Higgo" Higgins of "Distortion", which airs on Australia's long-running rock station Triple M, conducted an interview with former PANTERA and current DOWN frontman Philip Anselmo. You can now listen to the chat in the YouTube clip below. "Down IV Part I - The Purple EP", DOW...

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FLYING COLORS: Fan-Filmed Video Footage Of U.S., European Shows

FLYING COLORS — the spectacular new virtuoso prog/pop/metal rock band formed by drummer Mike Portnoy (ex-DREAM THEATER) and guitarist Steve Morse (DEEP PURPLE) — is in the middle of its first-ever European tour, which kicked off on September 9 in Hamburg, Germany. Fan-filmed video footage of the sho...

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Guitarist STEFAN KAUFMANN Quits U.D.O.

Guitarist Stefan Kaufmann has left U.D.O. — the German metal band led by former ACCEPT frontman Udo Dirkschneider — for health reasons. U.D.O. has begun with the preparations for the forthcoming studio album and is looking for a new guitar player with immediate effect. Interested parties can send...

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HIM: New Single Release Date Moved Forward Due To Online Leak

Finnish love metallers HIM will release a greatest-hits album, "XX - Two Decades Of Love Metal", on October 29 via Sony Music in Finland. The set will include the band's new cover version of the song "Strange World", originally recorded in the 1990s by Kevin Grivois (a.k.a. Ké). The "Strange World"...

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You have to be a headbanger to get this statement, but just the sound of Udo Dirkschneider's voice is comforting. Like Rob Halford, like Bruce Dickinson, like Tom Araya, like the late, great Ronnie Dio, there's no mistaking Udo Dirkschneider. While there's been a bounty of German metal heroes (and h...

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BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE Taps CHRIS LORD-ALGE For New Album Mixes

Welsh metallers BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE have tapped noted engineer Chris Lord-Alge (DEFTONES, NICKELBACK, AVENGED SEVENFOLD) to mix their fourth album, due in early 2013. The band's frontman, Matt Tuck, tweeted earlier today, "Just got the first mixes through off album 4 from Sir Chris Lord Alge, FU...

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FLYING COLORS Interviewed At First-Ever Live Show (Video)

FLYING COLORS — the spectacular new virtuoso prog/pop/metal rock band formed by drummer Mike Portnoy (ex-DREAM THEATER) and guitarist Steve Morse (DEEP PURPLE) — made its live debut this past Tuesday (September 4) at James Armstrong Theater in Torrance, California. Video footage of a pre-show interv...

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P.O.D.: New Video Interview With SONNY SANDOVAL

On September 2, High Voltage Media conducted an interview with vocalist Sonny Sandoval of Christian hard rockers P.O.D. (PAYABLE ON DEATH). You can now watch the chat below. P.O.D.'s new album, "Murdered Love", sold more than 16,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut a...

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BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE Guitarist Undergoes Back Surgery

Guitarist Michael "Padge" Paget of Welsh metallers BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE is currently recovering in the hospital after undergoing back surgery. The band states, "He's doing great." According to BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE guitarist/vocalist Matt Tuck, the recording sessions for

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EDGE OF SERENITY: New Single Title, Artwork Revealed

Dutch female-fronted black-death metal band EDGE OF SERENITY will release a new single, "The Royal Hunt", later in the year. The effort marks the recording debut of the group's new vocalist Nanette V. and includes a guest appearance by Swedish drummer Adrian Erlandsson (PARADISE LOST, AT THE GATES,...

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ICED EARTH's JON SCHAFFER: 'Television Is The Most Dangerous Weapon Of All'

Metal Blast conducted an interview with ICED EARTH mainman/guitarist Jon Schaffer at this year's edition of the Bloodstock Open Air festival, which was held August 9-12 at Catton Park, Derbyshire in the United Kingdom. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Metal Blast: "Sons Of Liberty" [...

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ANTHRAX's 'Among The Living' 'Audiobiography' Episode Launches On Google Play

Thrash-metal masters ANTHRAX and what is arguably the band's signature album, "Among The Living", will be featured on Google Play's "Audiobiography" series starting today. ANTHRAX's Scott Ian and Joey Belladonna recently pulled back the curtain exclusively for Google Play, discussing at length stori...